"More than any other, this boardwalk brings back that exhilarating
teenage sense of summer-vacation freedom and possibility.
Throbbing with energy day and night, fueled by Thrasher's fries soaked in
vinegar (a true delicacy), the 'walk' features
cool reversible benches that flip back and forth, depending on whether you want
to gaze at the Atlantic Ocean
or the passing parade along the boardwalk itself."

- Steve Millburg

Dear
Friends and Schoolmates,

Today's theme is a natural for today, as will hopefully become
evident.... (And no, Steve Millburg is not actually describing the boardwalk
at Buckroe Beach...)

I'm in a bit of a bind at the moment, because I'm running a low-grade
fever. At such times, the safest thing for me to do is to "lay low",
because I never know what's going to come out of my mouth, let alone my
fingertips, and the damage control usually runs pretty steep. On the other
hand, I have some time-sensitive material to impart, so I'm going to risk it.
So if y'all will please cut me some slack here, I'd appreciate it. When
you get to a section I wrote and think to yourself, "WHAT DID
SHE SAY?!?", just stop and say, "PORE THANG!
SHE DON'T KNOW WHUT SHE'S SAYIN', BUT SHE TRIED!"

And
now (DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!)
I'm happy to announce that after a full month since I first received them from a
long listing of all you wonderful Sweetie-Pies, I've finally finished saving,
processing, and posting those 24 fabulous images on the new page - "Vintage
Personal Photos
and Memories" - created just for such a purpose. Rather than
repeat them here, just jump to the page and check them out. Try to keep
from drooling on your keyboards, please. It's bad for the equipment.

I have a nasty feeling I inadvertently
omitted someone's name from the list of all of y'all who sent me those precious
old photos. Sooner or later, I'll catch that error, but meanwhile, if you
don't see your name listed in the "credits" following the pictures, please drop
me a subtle note saying something like, "HEY!!! What
about ME?!?"

Thanks again, Bruce (and
all of the rest of y'all)!
I wasn't stalling or trying to ignore those shots. I just
really, really didn't have the time until now, and I was also lacking the vision
of their display until this week.

From One of my
Famous Marines - Herb Hice of MI, who
served in the Pacific Theater during WWII - 01/10/07 - "Dear Carol, Dear
Carol, Discontent in AMERICA":

Dear Carol,

Every now and
then all Americans need a little reminder about how fortunate we are to
live in the Greatest Country on Earth. I received this E-Mail and I
thought I would share it with you.

Your Friend,
Herbie

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67% of Americans are unhappy
with the direction the country is headed and 69% of the country
is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3
of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change.

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I starting thinking, ''What
we are so unhappy about?''

Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day,
7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air
conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it
be that 95.4% of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the
ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more
food in moments than
Darfur has seen in the last year?

Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the
Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers
as we move through each state? Or possibly the hundreds of clean
and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide
temporary shelter? I guess having thousands of restaurants with
varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough.
Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers
show up and provide services to help all involved. Whether you
are rich or poor they treat your wounds and even, if necessary,
send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.

Perhaps you are one of the 70% of Americans who own a home, you
may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of having
a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments
and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving
you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home
watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler
intrudes; an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest
will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or
militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where
90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms
we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that
is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats
the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. yet
has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we
are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but
complain about what we don't have and what we hate about the
country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war
and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly
31% approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the
nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes
to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy
who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in
keeping all the spoiled brats safe from terrorist attacks? The
commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there
defending you and me?

Make no mistake about it. The troops in
Iraq and
Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases
have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this
country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go
and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than
honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a
''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat out discontentment in the minds of 67% of
Americans? Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it
bleeds, it leads, and they specialize in bad news. Everybody
will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch
kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and
media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what
sells. Just ask why they were going to allow a murderer like O.J.
Simpson to write a book and do a TV special about how he didn't
kill his wife but if he did, how he would do it . Insane!

Stop buying the negative venom you are fed everyday by the
media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the
New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then
start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is
exponentially more good than bad.

I close with one of my favorite quotes from
B.C. Forbes in 1953:

''What have Americans to be thankful for? More than any other
people on the earth, we enjoy complete religious freedom,
political freedom, social freedom. Our liberties are sacredly
safeguarded by the Constitution of the
United States, 'the most wonderful work ever struck off
at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.' Yes, we
Americans of today have been bequeathed a noble heritage. Let us
pray that we may hand it down unsullied to our children and
theirs.''

I suggest we sit back and count our blessings for all we have.
If we don't, what we have will be taken away. Then we will have
to explain to future generations why we squandered such blessing
and abundance. If we are not careful this generation will be
known as the ''greediest and most ungrateful generation.'' A far
cry from the proud Americans of the ''greatest generation'' who
left us an untarnished legacy.

I think this is a Dutch parking lot and pictures
were taken every 10 seconds.

COOL!

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One night while I was cat-sitting my daughter's indoor feline, it escaped
outside. When it failed to return the following morning, I found the beast
clinging to a branch about 30 feet up in a spindly tree. Unable to lure it
down, I called the fire department.

"We don't do that anymore," the woman dispatcher said. When I persisted,
she was polite but firm. "The cat will come down when it gets hungry
enough."

1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.

2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.

3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.

4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.

5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to
become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?

7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a
company can operate without.

8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

9. Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.

11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.

12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM. It
could be a right number.

13. Think about this..., No one ever says "It's only a game." when his team is
winning.

14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.

15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.

16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size
bucket.

17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of OLD LADIES
running around with tattoos? (And RAP music will be the Golden Oldies!)

18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a
Corvette than in a Yugo.

19. After a certain age, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are
probably dead.

WILD GIGGLES!!!
Thanks, Janice!

From Randy Tate ('66) of DA - 01/10/07 - "Great
to speak with you ...":

Hi Carol,

It was great speaking with you yesterday,
and I will pass on the suggested hosting web sites to Ed for his class
reunion.

It is miserably cold here today, maybe
better in your neck of the woods?

One thing I forgot to tell you yesterday
was regarding the reunion and the "Lifetouch" reunion photograph booklet we
received. I was really disappointed to see that it was black and white photos
and pretty dark as well. I had expected at least color photos, since these
folks specialize in church directories and ours are always color. The photos you posted that we all shared
were MUCH better! So thanks again for all your hard work on the web site and
it is another example of how helpful it is to us all - and much appreciated.

Best Regards to you and Eleanor (Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of
NC),

Randy and Linda

Thanks so much,
Randy Darlin'!
And thanks for the call, too!

From Bob Cook ('67) of VA - 01/10/07:

Carol,

I would like to add my e-mail address to those
listed in the web site. Also, my brother, Lee Cook, would like his added too. Can you
please add them for me?

First of all, thank you for mentioning the Old Stomping Grounds page on your
website, which is my favorite of all! I've perused that site time & time again.
I'm so grateful that you never throw anything away. (Newcomers to this site
should take note -- Our Old Stomping Grounds is a FABULOUS archive that should
win some kind of prize!!)

Thank you,
Jean!
That section is my very favorite as well - for so many reasons!

http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/old-stomping.html
There has been something on my mind that seems like it never happened --
primarily because there is nothing about it on the internet, plus practically no
one I've talked to seems to remember -- and that is the 1966 jet crash in
Buckroe. Just wondered if anyone has a "where were you" story regarding this. I
remember romping around in our living room on Chesapeake Avenue in Hampton that
night, and hearing an eerie "WHOOMPHH!!" as the house shook a little.

We went to the christening of the submarine RAY (SSN-653) at the NN shipyard a
day or two later, but I was totally incapable of enjoying this event, thinking
about how creepy that plane crash was.

Best,
Jean Lankes
HHS 72

My "memory" being what it
is, I do not recall this event at all just yet; perhaps it will return as we
continue this dialogue.

Having a very close date will
help in the search process. From the site of USS Ray, I found its launch
date to be June 21, 1966:

As you know, the
informal reunion committee has informally decided to hold an informal
reunion next summer (and perhaps every summer thereafter).

Mary Ann Edwards
Elliot has graciously offered to host this informal party at her lovely
beach home in Willoughby Spit.This will be an afternoon
into evening beach party with covered dish dinner. Please
put this date on your calendar.

*****
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 *****

Here is a list of
“missing classmates”. If you have any contact information for anyone on this
list, please contact them, or me, so we can get them on our mailing list.
They don’t have to have an e-mail address.

Ricki Bond Brothers

Edith Collins Jones

Claude Combs

Joe Cowan

Jeannette Fowler Barrett

Carolyn Gardner Breeden

Gene Gill

Frank Gillespie

Pat Goodwin

Kay Hartsell Linker

Brenda Hinson

Jean Hite Pickens

Leslie Isbell

Linda Letchworth
Enochs

Wallace Lotts

Charles Marrs

JoAnn Marshall
Brengartner

Verlla Martin Eason

Ralph McKee

Pam Morris Burg

Evelyn Paul

Ruby Phillips Bass

Della Rice

Barbara Riggs

Joanne Roller
Holland

Charles Schneider

Tom Scott

Linda Jean Shelly

Glen Smith

Marilyn Suskind

Gene Tesh

Betty Jean Thomas
Merrill

Thank you,
Karen! YOWZERONI!!! I
was trying so hard to help locate your missing people, it took me a couple of
days to realize I hadn't posted your Reunion News. THEN I saw I'd never
even created such a page!

So I fixed it.
Your Reunion information is now
carried on this and each Newsletter to follow, as well as leading of the main
page:

May I suggest that if this little pre-Newsletter huddle
develops some contacts, that you go ahead and publish the entire list as is,
for it will give many subscribers an opportunity to participate and give you
feedback.

Karen seems to have left the rapidly growing New Tampa
area for the rural Rodeo town.

I think if the entire list is published to the "Typhoon nation", you should get
a positive response to those missing whereabouts.

Anne (Sawyer Turpin - '65 - of VA),
my family and I are doing well. A big thanks for the service you do for us.

Take care and a Typhoon LOVE to you!
Bobby Turpin (NNHS '58)

PS:Gail Gaskins (NC '58) is coming to Newport News for a visit this weekend.
We will be having lunch at Cheddars at the Patrick Henry Mall area on
Monday @ 1PM. Sure wish you and your sister
(Eleanor Buckley Nowitzky - '59 - of NC) could attend. We would Love to see
you guys.

Thanks so much, Bobby!
I'm
glad to hear that all is well with you and yours! Give Anne my love! Oh, and
thanks for the invitation! I'll pass it along to Eleanor, but that woman lives
in the fast track, so she probably already has 18 things planned. Tell everyone
Hi for us, though!

Wal, Lady,
that's 'cause it actually fed into Warwick High, rather than Newport News High,
so in the old days I saw no reason to include it. Nowadays, of course,
such a restriction is patently ludicrous, particularly as so many of y'all
attended there. So here ya go, Jamey - a new page just for you!

A wonderful act
of selflessness!
This guy really is a true hero. Not many would risk their own life to save
another's. I caught the end of the report on the news & did not grasp the fullness of
what he did until I saw this video, but this is amazing.

This is downright
breathtaking! Thanks for sharing
this with us, Shari!

From Wayne
Stokes
('65) of VA -01/11/06 - "A reminder of how
blessed we are.....":

CBD,

You
may have seen this before, it's been around a few times. Yet, it is still
worthy of a read now and then.

I know that there were
many members of the Class of 1964 who were unable to attend the 40th Year
Reunion in 2004 and who did not receive a copy of the Old Rustier Anchor
(2004). I suspect that there are members of the classes which preceded and
followed the Class of 1964, who may be curious about the lives of their
friends. For those who may not know, The Old Rustier Anchor is the compilation
of photos and remarks by members of the Class of 1964. A version has been
published at every reunion (1974, 1984, 1994, 1999, and 2004.)

I am pleased to offer (at no charge) the Microsoft WORD version of the Old
Rustier Anchor (2004) to anyone who requests it. This is the Master file from
which the printer created the booklets we distributed at the 2004 reunion.

It is a 24 page, 9 MB file (due to images) which I would attach to an e-mail.
If anyone is interested, simply send an e-mail to <nnhs64@cox.net>.
Please let me know if you are unable to receive large attached files due to spam
filters, etc., and I will make other arrangements.

What a wonderful opportunity you've provided for everyone, David!
Thank you so much!

So that no one
will miss it, I'll carry this offer in the next several Newsletters, and I've
posted it on TYPHOONMART, as well:

I apologize for sending you a reminder
about the three upcoming important meetings in January about Buckroe's Lots
B. However, as pointed out in the earlier e-mail, it is most critical for
as many warm bodies as possible to show up at each of the following meetings
in Hampton's City Hall Building, 8th Floor.

For those of you who live outside of
Hampton, even outside of Virginia, please forward this reminder to anyone in
Hampton who might be interested in saving Lots B for the public's continued
use. Most of you know someone living in the Tidewater area to whom you can
e-mail this reminder (that is why you are on as an addressee of this note).

Planning Commission Meeting:

January 8, 3:30 PM. -- Public
Hearing, and the Planning Commission's approval, or not, of the Planning

Department's recommended design option choice for Lots B. This meeting will
be interesting.

City
Council Meetings:

January 10, 7:30 PM -- Public
Hearing

January 24, 7:30 PM -- Public
Hearing, AND Council's FINAL VOTE on the fate of Lots B.

(Most important on this night to have a packed house -
be prepared for a late night.)

4"x 6" signs reading "Option
D-1" will be available for all attendees to wear during the meetings.

The same sign then can be placed
in the rear or side windows of your cars. Recommend they remain there for
all to see as you drive around town until after Council's vote on January
24.

If you cannot attend one of the
meetings above to pick up an "Option D-1" sign for your car, please make
your own sign, and stick it in your car window until January 24.

We also hope to get as many
"Option D-1" signs as possible displayed in store/restaurant windows
throughout Hampton. Please ask your favorite restaurant or business owner
if one can be displayed in their window. Let us know who they are, and we
will get a sign to them.

Thank you for spreading the word.

I look forward to seeing as many "Buckroe's
Lots B as a Park" supporters as possible at any or all of the above
meetings.

As you already may know, the Planning
Commission voted last night to recommend Option E to Council for Lots B.

Option E was "contrived" by the Planning
Department in early December.

I believe a picture of Option E is on
their website, and a copy will soon be on our website for viewing.

Option E basically is the same
plan called for in the original Buckroe Master Plan. Option E, like the
original plan, will require Lots B to be sold to developers for residential
housing.

Do not get discouraged by the Planning
Commission's vote last night. We need your total support (and your bodies)
now more than ever.

It may help you to know there are
a number of occasions where the Council's final decision HAS varied from the
Planning Commission's recommendation.

One occasion, similar to the Buckroe
issue, was in 2001 when the Planning Commission recommended that Bloxom's
Corner (Fox Hill, Old Buckroe, and Beach Rd) be rezoned in order for a
Zoom's to be built on that corner.

Council held two public hearings
following the Planning Commission's recommendation. At the FIRST
Council meeting the Council voted Yes, the property should be rezoned.

In the next couple of weeks there was a
lot of lobbying, and at the SECOND Council meeting Council voted No,
because OPPOSITION FILLED council chambers and was overflowing.

A Daily Press article, September
28, 2001, titled,"COUNCIL REVERSES
VOTE, STOPS ZOOMS MOVE",
tells the Zooms story and is attached for your information.

Exactly like the ZOOMS issue, Council will hold
two meetings on the Lots B issue prior to a final vote whether to approve
Option E or not.

The FIRST Council meeting will be Wednesday,
January 10, 7:30 pm, City Hall, 8th Floor.

The SECOND Council meeting AND the vote will be
Wednesday, January 24, 7:30 pm, City Hall, 8th Floor.

The Council Chambers on January 10 SHOULD
BE FILLED with everyone who wants to save Lots B as a city park; HOWEVER,

a packed house of park supporters IS ABSOLUTELY
CRITICAL for January 24...just as it was for the Zooms issue.

Please mark your calendars to attend.

I cannot stress strongly enough how important it
will be for everyone who has said they want to save Lots B as a city park
to attend the January 24 City Council meeting. Making remarks before
Council is not necessary, just your presence, but remarks, if only a
sentence of two, will help.

Please send a request out to everyone in your
data base, your family, your church, and your social, athletic, civic
clubs to also attend if they are serious about saving Lots B from
developers.

Both nights, January 10 and January 24, will be late nights;
therefore, people need to be prepared to "camp out" if necessary but that is
little enough to give considering what is at stake.

I will be sending out another e-mail shortly
which will contain different information about the issue.

If you have no interest in remaining on this
mass e-mail addressee list, please let me know immediately.

Any suggestions, other than this e-mail
addressee list, for getting people to one or both City Council meetings
will be greatly appreciated.

We will have "Option D-1" signs for everyone to
wear at the Council meetings.....and Option D-1 signs are beginning to
appear in car windows. Please make one for yourself or let me know and I
will get one or more to you. Remember the signs only have to be displayed
through January 24.

Thank you. sac

Thank you, Edna and Karen - and
Sandra!

REUNION REMINDERS:

Reunion
information is ALWAYS posted very near the top on the front page, and
on the Reunion Page section:

The
NNHS Class of 1957 is planning its 50-Year Class Reunion,
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
September 7, 8 and 9, 2007
at the Omni Hotel in Newport News, VA.

More details to
follow!

The NNHS Class of 1958
is planning its 50th Anniversary Reunion,
Friday and Saturday, May 16 -17, 2008.

The Noble
Gathering

More details to
follow!

From My Niece,
Shari, of VA - 01/02/06 - "Why People Move South" (#6 in a series of 11):

WHY PEOPLE MOVE SOUTH!

Okay, that's a
LOTTA snow!!!

Thanks, Shari!

Any More Questions?

In
other "funny" news, for various reasons, I think my email is neither
reaching me nor leaving me at the moment. So if I appear to be acting even
ruder than normal, please forgive me until I can "figger" this one out....

Y'all take care
of each other! TYPHOON FOREVER! We'll
Always Have Buckroe!

When the sun
beats down
And burns the tar up on the roof
And your shoes get so hot
You wish your tired feet were fireproof

Under the boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be having some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be making love
(Under the boardwalk, boardwalk)

From the park you'll hear
The happy sound of a carousel
You can almost taste the hot dogs
And French fries they sell

Under the boardwalk
Down by the sea, yeah
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be having some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be making love
(Under the boardwalk, boardwalk)

Oh, under the boardwalk
Down by the sea
On a blanket with my baby
Is where I'll be

(Under the boardwalk) Out of the sun
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be having some fun
(Under the boardwalk) People walking above
(Under the boardwalk) We'll be falling in love
(Under the boardwalk, boardwalk)